MARK SCOTT

MARK SCOTT is visiting assistant professor of Christianity at the University of Missouri. He and Esther have three children: David, born Nov. 8, 2010; James, 5; and Hannah, 3. Mark explores Origen of Alexandria’s creative, complex, and controversial treatment theodicy in his upcoming book entitled Journey Back to God: Origen on the Problem of Evil (Oxford University Press, June 2012). He argues that Origen’s layered cosmology functions as a theodicy that discerns deeper meaning beneath the apparent injustices of the world.